I woke up and looked at my phone and saw the headline. Barack Obama elected the 44th president of the United States. Wow. I don't get very emotional. I've been told it's a trait that I have inhereted from my mother's side of the family. But I cried like a little baby that night. Tears of joy and yes tears of sorrow to think of all those in my family that are not alive anymore to see this day. All four of my grandparents are gone and I would have loved for my Grandma Elena to have seen this.
I have never been so proud to be an American in my life. The simple fact that we as a nation collectively voted to put the best candidate in office, regardless of the color of his skin, tells me that Americans might just get this thing right. That's the most important aspect about this election. That people did not vote for him because he is or isn't African-American or that he is or isn't the son of an African father and White mother. We voted for him because he was clearly the candidate who will fight for the issues that matter to us. And because he was the clear choice in this election for change. Change that we can believe in and that is not just a bunch of promises. We all believe in him and know that he will carry out his promises and make them a reality.
To quote an Oliver Stone movie "Nixon", when Richard Nixon asks one of his White House servants why he voted for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, he replies: "Because he made me see the stars."
President-elect Obama has truly made me see the stars. I am proud to say that I have been a supporter of his before the primaries and caucuses. Before Hillary and before John McCain. And.....I think I made the right decision.
I will be getting married in December of this year. I hope to have kids very soon thereafter. I am proud to know that they will be born in a country headed by President Barack Obama.
Thank you for making me cry. God bless America!!!!!
I'm so excited that it's time to start early voting!! I'm either going tomorrow or Monday but I'm so excited that I'll get to vote in what's going to be the greatest election of all time!! My cousin, Gloria, already went and voted today so YAY GLORIA!
Everyone have fun in making this world better by voting for Barack Obama!! Obama for America, 2008!!!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1068193/sarah_palin_vice_presidential_debate.html?cat=60
While I do not usually condone consuming large quantities of alcoholic beverages, certain occasions call for more than the usual glass of wine with dinner. The Sarah Palin-Joe Biden vice presidential debate scheduled for this Thursday, Oct. 2, is one of those times. Though the vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden is likely to be an entertaining show even if you're stone cold sober, just think of how much more fun you could have adding alcohol to the mix.RULES OF THE SARAH PALIN VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE DRINKING GAME--Take a chug of Moosehead beer whenever Sarah Palin says the following:maverickreformerany sentence including the words "neighbor" and "Russia"small-town valuesGwen or Joe (remember how many times Palin said "Charlie" during the Gibson interview?)off shore oil drillingAlaska"Thanks but no thanks!"witchcraft (not likely...but hey, you never know, especially if Kathleen Parker's name should pop up)--Take two chugs of Moosehead whenever Sarah Palin does the following:Utters a coherent sentence (i.e., contains a subject and a verb and makes logical sense)Talks about her new friend Henry Kissinger or Hamid KarzaiExplains how being the part-time mayor of Wasilla, Alaska with a full-time city manager counts as executive experience--Chug a whole bottle of Moosehead if Sarah Palin mentions the following:Palin PresidencyOn second thought, make that two bottles of Moosehead.-----------------------------------------Author's note: The author of this piece does not actually condone the drinking of large quantities of alcohol or playing drinking games of any sort. For more information, please look up the word satire in your favorite dictionary
And the winner is....Obama of course!!
Now on to the general election and the GOP lie machine!!!
If I were a Senator or a Congressman. I would create a congressional investigation commission for the Iraq War. I think every person who took part of the war should be called up and testify. After the hearings and interviews, I would make a proposal for a law sue for those groups below.
1)Those Christian theocrats http://erlc.com/article/the-so-called-land-letter2)Neo-conservative organizationshttp://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
3) Admed Chalabi
4) Iraqi National Congress
5) Fox News
6) The member of the Bush White House
I ugre anyone to contact your congressmen and DEMAND THEM for such an investigation
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to Obama's campaign.
Edwards dropped out of the Democratic race on January 30 after poor showings in the early contests.
He told NBC last week that Obama, the Democratic front-runner, is the party's likely nominee. Both Obama and the his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, had sought Edwards' blessing.
Clinton campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Wednesday that "we respect John Edwards, but as the voters of West Virginia showed last night, this thing is far from over."
According to CNN's latest estimates, Obama has 1,884 total delegates (pledged: 1,600, superdelegates: 284). Clinton has 1,718 total delegates (pledged: 1,445, superdelegates: 273).
Edwards, meanwhile, has 19 total pledged delegates who may or may not pledge their support for Obama at the Democratic National Committee's August convention in Denver, Colorado.
Edwards, who is not a superdelegate, said last week that it was "fine" for Clinton to continue making her case but expressed concern that a continued campaign could damage the party's prospects in November.
Wednesday's endorsement could help Obama reach out to white blue-collar voters, a demographic that Obama has failed to capture, most notably in the recent Pennsylvania and West Virginia primaries.
Edwards had campaigned on the message that he was standing up for the little guy, the people who are not traditionally given a voice in Washington, and that he would do more to fight special interests.
After dropping out of the race, Edwards asked both Clinton and Obama to make poverty a central issue in the general election and a future Democratic administration, something both agreed to do.
An endorsement from Edwards, who ran as vice president on Sen. John Kerry's ticket in the 2004 presidential election, would have a significant impact on the race, Democratic strategist Peter Fenn said after Edwards dropped out.
"You could make an argument that the change issue does benefit Barack Obama, that he picks up that support. You could also make the argument that there's a lot of support out there amongst people that will go to Hillary," he said. "The big issue here is who will he endorse."
Some political pundits predicted that Edwards' supporters are more likely to lean in Obama's direction.
"The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will pick up maybe 60 percent of them, and in some places, that makes a huge difference," former presidential adviser David Gergen said in January.
Time magazine's Joe Klein contends that Clinton "represents a lot of the things that [Edwards] campaigned against, you know, the old Washington Democratic establishment that he believes got too close to the corporations in the '90s."
Edwards announced that he was dropping out in New Orleans, Louisiana, the same city where he declared his run for the 2008 Democratic presidential race.
"It is time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path," he said.
With his wife, Elizabeth, and children at his side, Edwards said he couldn't predict "who will take the final steps to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," but he said it would be a Democrat.
Edwards trailed Clinton and Obama in the early contests, including a third-place finish in Florida's primary with 14 percent of the votes. He also came in third in key races in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Klein said Edwards played a positive role in spurring his competitors during the early part of the campaign.
"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on," Klein said.
John Edwards is a South Carolina native with an undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University and law degree from the University of North Carolina.
I want to commend everyone at the Victoria County, County Convention! We walked away with 11 Delegates. A number much higher than expected given we were outnumbered 2 to 1 in many of the precincts! Great job everyone! It is on to State!
Fired up and Ready to Go!
The Victoria County, County Convention will be on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel at 1:00pm. All Delegates and Alternatives elected at the March 4th Precinct Convention are invited to attend. The County Convention is where delegates are elected to the Democratic Party State Convention in June. The Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel is located at 2705 E. Houston Hwy, Victoria, TX. I will see you there!
OMG this lady is totally crawling under my skin!! She doesn't think Barack is good enough to be President so she offers to take her under her wing as her VP? GMAB!! When I read between the lines of that possibility I saw that Hillary 1. is obviously trying to take as many votes from "undecided" democrats in Mississippi and Pennsylvania and 2. that she doesn't feel confident enough to win the rest of the states' votes on her own so she had to include Obama in order to hopefully gain a few more votes. That's just tacky politics if you ask me.
Furthermore, that Ferraro chick needs to keep her mouth shut in the future and apologize for what she has said. Hillary's campaign already does tacky politics and it would be nice to see someone from there demonstrate an effort to make some kind of ammend. After all, we're all the same party, right?
Lastly, a caucus delegate?? Cute!! She wouldn't have won those either!! Her eyebrow raising has really gotten old and I can't wait to see her off the television. And honestly, how politically ininappropriate is it to claim that your opponent FROM THE OTHER PARTY is a better candidate for the Presidency than the one you're considering as your VP??!!! Can we say rude blonde moment?
I just saw the hour-long special on MSNBC about Obama and it was really enlightening. He's the epitome of the American Dream. I feel that regardless of how nasty Hillary gets, I myself can't get that way because I am doing this campaign with a strong sense of HOPE, not back-stabbing politics. That's why we're all for CHANGE. If I try to be the better person and focus on winnning votes for Obama simply by telling people who he is and what he stands for and not bashing his opponent, the campaign and ultimately this country will have a better outcome.
I just want to say that I am so proud of our Victorians for Obama group. Although Texas did not go as well as we all had hoped, we are still ahead in the delegate count and are fired up for Pennsylvania and the nomination!
We did well. I am still very excited and not going to return to cynicism.
Last night the kids and I went canvassing for Obama around my neighborhood. It was so damn cold but they were bundled up in their wagon and although we got the door slammed on us a few times, it was an extraordinary experience because of the overwhelming support I found in my neighborhood for Obama and as a Democrat. I got hugs from Obama supporters and even passed out all but two flyers which the kids wanted to keep. What was nice was finding the Obama supporters and having them promise to pass on some flyers themselves for Super Tuesday. I called my family, a few friends and texted everybody else. It was nice because for the few who I saw last night that were undecided, they told me that because I spent time trying to educate them about Obama and that because I had been the only one representing any of the candidates that they were going to vote for Obama. When I texted some of my friends last night and this morning a few of them had actually admitted that they forgot to vote, but guess who they told me they had voted for when they finally did get to go vote today!! Furthermore, and I think one of the best perks of calling my family was convincing my aunt to vote. I honestly don't know who she voted for, but she told me today that she did indeed vote because of what I had told her about women not always having the right to vote and the need to exercise that right.
Overall it was really amazing that I could make a difference in people's choices for president and rewarding that I had actually been able to convince people to vote for Obama.
Today my cousin and I went canvassing in town to a local neighborhood. She and I have always been close, but I don't think there was ever a time we'd done anything 'special' together. She is one of the precinct captains in town (not in mine however) but it was a wonderful experience to go canvass with her and her two year old daughter. Maybe we'd never had a lunch date or a shopping spree, but we were helping to persuade and educate members of our community to vote for the one man we believe can help shape America into the great nation it is called to be.
The experience as a whole was wonderful, despite the extremely windblown hair the two of us got from walking door to door. We were supposed to only go to a few houses, but we opted to go door to door anyway.
I'm glad I have had the opportunity to do more than just vote this election. Mind you, this is the first election that I actually felt strongly about a candidate. I feel that if I speak up for Obama right now, he'll listen to me and speak up for America for the next 8 years (yes, I'm counting on re-election.)
